BEIRUT, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Israeli planes hit a Syrian army camp under construction in eastern Syria early on Monday without casualties, said a military media unit run by Lebanon's Hezbollah, a Syrian government ally. War monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights had earlier reported that ...
Israel's Iron Dome defence system is designed to intercept and destroy incoming short-range rockets and artillery shells (AFP Photo/JALAA MAREY)/ Jerusalem (AFP) - Israel said Monday several rockets were fired at its territory from Syria by an Iranian-backed force in what would be a rare ...
Syrian government forces ride on a tank as it drives down a street in the Syrian border town of Albu Kamal (AFP Photo/STRINGER)/ Beirut (AFP) - Air strikes hit positions of pro-Iranian forces and allied militias in eastern Syria overnight, killing 18 fighters, a war monitor said Monday. It was ...
Hezbollah’s leader said on Tuesday his Iran-backed movement had shot down an Israeli drone in Lebanon for the first time to strengthen deterrence against attack by arch-foe Israel./ Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah gestures as he addresses his supporters via a screen during the ...
Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah gestures as he addresses his supporters via a screen during the religious procession to mark the Shi'ite Ashura ceremony, in Beirut, Lebanon September 10, 2019. REUTERS/Aziz Taher/ BEIRUT (Reuters) - Hezbollah’s leader said on Tuesday his ...
A vehicle of United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL) rides on a road along the border between Lebanon and Israel in the southern Lebanese town of Ramyeh in the Bint Jbeil District on Sept. 9, 2019. - (Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP/Getty Images)/ Foreign correspondent focusing on French and ...
Spanish U.N peacekeepers patrol the Lebanese side of the Lebanese-Israeli border in the southern village of Kfar Kila, Lebanon, Monday, Aug. 26, 2019. Lebanon's state-run National News Agency said Monday that Israel's air force attacked a Palestinian base in the country's east near the border ...
These are external links and will open in a new window/ Warplanes have struck positions of Iran-backed militias near Syria's border with Iraq, activists say. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group, said at least 18 Iranian and pro-Iranian fighters were killed. It ...
BEIRUT — Syrian opposition activists say unknown warplanes have targeted an arms depot belonging to Iranian-backed militias in the eastern Syrian town of Boukamal, near the Iraqi border. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the airstrikes began late Sunday and continued ...
BEIRUT — The militant Hezbollah group says it has shot down an Israeli drone over southern Lebanon shortly after it crossed from Israel. The group said in a statement that the militants shot down the drone Monday with “suitable weapons” over the village of Ramieh and that the drone is now with ...
A former official in the powerful Iranian-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah was found dead in his flat in a Beirut neighborhood, the state-run Lebanese news agency said on Sunday. Security forces immediately opened an investigation and were awaiting the arrival of a forensic doctor to determine ...
BEIRUT, Sept 8 (Reuters) - A former official in the powerful Iranian-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah was found dead in his flat in a Beirut neighborhood, the state-run Lebanese news agency said on Sunday. Security forces immediately opened an investigation and were awaiting the arrival of a ...
BEIRUT, Sept 8 (Reuters) - A former official in the powerful Iranian-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah was found dead in his flat in a Beirut neighborhood, the state-run Lebanese news agency said on Sunday. Security forces immediately opened an investigation and were awaiting the arrival of a ...
37AM [Updated: Mon Sep 9, 2019 10:41AM ]/ Israel has claimed a drone attack on Iraqi forces and members of the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah near Syria's border with Iraq. The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said the attack took place in the early hours of Monday, ...
04AM [Updated: Mon Sep 9, 2019 04:13AM ]/ The Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah has shot down an Israeli military drone outside the southern town of Ramyah. Hezbollah said its air defense forces shot down the aircraft early Monday as it crossed the border between Lebanon and the occupied ...
53PM [Updated: Sun Sep 8, 2019 09:54PM ]/ A picture taken from the southern Lebanese village of Meiss al-Jabal on December 16, 2018, shows the flag of the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah hoisted along the border of Lebanon and the occupied territories. (Photo by AFP)/ A former official in ...
Gaza has become worse than hell on Earth, according to the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Mirjana Spoljaric. Speaking to the BBC's international editor Jeremy Bowen at the ICRC headquarters in Geneva, Spoljaric says what is happening in Gaza surpasses any ...
16 fighter jets at an airbase in southern Israel/ Israel said it had launched strikes on weapons belonging to Syria, hours after reports that two projectiles had been fired from Syria into Israel on Tuesday. The Israeli strikes on southern Syria caused "significant human and material losses", ...
Aid distribution centres in Gaza will be closed for a day on Wednesday, as the Israeli military warned roads leading to the sites will be considered "combat zones". The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a controversial US and Israel-backed aid network which began operating last week, said it ...
Witnesses and international medical teams report terrible scenes of killing as Israeli troops opened fire in the hours of Tuesday before dawn on Palestinians who were converging on the new aid distribution site in southern Gaza. It was "total carnage" according to a foreign witness. An official ...
In Gaza, for most women pregnancy and childbirth are now times of heightened stress and fear/ Amid a deadly war in Gaza, new lives begin. But newborn babies and those still in the womb are among the worst hit by the harsh conditions. With acute shortages of food, the UN says that one in 10 new ...
At least 27 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire as they attempted to collect aid near a distribution site in Gaza, local officials say. Civilians were fired upon by tanks, quadcopter drones, and helicopters near the al-Alam roundabout, about 1km (0.6 miles) from the aid distribution ...
backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has set up four aid distribution centre in southern and central Gaza/ The UN secretary-general has called for an independent investigation into the killing of Palestinians near an aid distribution centre in Gaza on Sunday, amid disputed reports that Israeli ...
Tim Davie, the BBC's director general, called on Tehran to cease its "campaign of intimidation"/ The BBC has again accused Iran of escalating a campaign of intimidation against its Persian journalists and increasingly targeting the relatives of staff inside the country. The British broadcaster ...
Eyewitness captures moments during Colorado attack/ Multiple people have been injured after a man shouting "free Palestine" tossed Molotov cocktails at a gathering in support of Israeli hostages in Colorado, authorities say. Police said eight people - aged between 52 and 88 - were hurt in the ...
Top secret intelligence files uncovered by the BBC confirm for the first time that missing American journalist Austin Tice was imprisoned by the regime of the now-deposed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Former Syrian officials have also confirmed Mr Tice's detention to the BBC. The US ...